1818

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s – 1810s – 1820s 1830s 1840s
Years:	1815 1816 1817 – 1818 – 1819 1820 1821

1818 in topic:
Humanities
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music
By country
Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK
Other topics
Rail Transport – Science – Sports
Lists of leaders
Colonial Governors – State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works

Events

January 1 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.
January 3 (21:52 UTC) – Venus occults Jupiter. It is the last occultation of one planet by another before November 22, 2065.
January 6 – Treaty of Mandeswar brings an end to the Third Anglo-Maratha War, ending the dominance of Marathas, and enhancing the power of the British East India Company, which controls territory occupied by 180 million Indians.
February 5 – Upon his death, King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) is succeeded on both thrones by his adoptive son Charles XIV/III John.
February 12 – Chile proclaims its independence from Spain.
March 15 – First Seminole War: General Andrew Jackson and his American army invade Florida.
March 22 – Easter Day in Western Christianity falls on its earliest possible date. In Western Christianity, it will not occur on this date again until 2285.
April 4 – The U.S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having thirteen red and white stripes and one star for each state (twenty) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
April 7 – Brooks Brothers, the oldest men's clothier in the United States, opens its first store on the northeast corner of Catherine and Cherry Streets in New York City, where the South Street Seaport now stands.
April 14–August 9 – U.S. Survey of the Coast operations suspended.
May 11 – Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

August 1 – Separate Topographical Bureau of the US War Department.
September 7 – Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
September 23 – Border markers are formally installed for the European territory of Moresnet.
October 5 – Claudine Thévenet (known as 'Mary of St. Ignatius') founds the Roman Catholic order Religieuses de Jésus-Marie ("Religious of Jesus And Mary") in Lyon, France.
October 20 – Treaty between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the boundary between the U.S. and British North America as the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle.
November 11 – Anglo-Chinese College is founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca (later renamed Ying Wa College).
November 16 – The Saint Louis Academy, which later becomes Saint Louis University, is founded by Reverend Louis William Valentine Dubourg.
December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.
December 24 – Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr.

Lord Hastings, the governor-general of India, gives approval to Sir Stamford Raffles to establish a trading station at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (modern-day Singapore).
Shaka starts to rule the Zulu Kingdom.
John Ross sets sail in search of the Northwest Passage.
Old Vic theatre founded (as the Royal Coburg Hall) in London.
Besses o' th' Barn brass band is formed in Whitefield, near Manchester.
The first edition of the Farmers' Almanac is published in the United States.
First Serbian dictionary, made by Vuk Karadžić.

January 30 – Artúr Görgey, Hungarian military general and politician (d. 1916)
February 14 – Frederick Douglass (his day of birth was never established; he adopted this date), American abolitionist author and statesman (d. 1895)
February 18 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom writer (d. 1870)
March 15 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
March 22 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
April 4 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
April 8 – King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
April 17 – Emperor Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
April 19 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician (d. 1883)
May 5 – Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
June 17
- Sophie of Württemberg, Dutch queen (d. 1877)
- Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
June 18 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)